{"id":452593,"date":"2025-07-22T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=452593"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:46:22","slug":"josh-okogie-signs-one-year-3-1m-deal-with-houston-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/josh-okogie-signs-one-year-3-1m-deal-with-houston-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Okogie signs one-year, $3.1M deal with Houston Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"168\" data-end=\"347\"><strong data-start=\"168\" data-end=\"183\">Josh Okogie<\/strong> has agreed to a <strong data-start=\"200\" data-end=\"235\">one-year, $3.1 million contract<\/strong> with the <strong data-start=\"245\" data-end=\"264\">Houston Rockets<\/strong>, per <em data-start=\"270\" data-end=\"286\">Shams Charania<\/em>. The former Suns forward is entering his <strong data-start=\"328\" data-end=\"346\">8th NBA season<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"548\">Represented by <strong data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"399\">Calvin Andrews of Klutch Sports<\/strong>, Okogie averaged <strong data-start=\"417\" data-end=\"446\">6.3 points and 1.2 steals<\/strong> across 416 career games. Last season, he ranked among the league&#8217;s best in <strong data-start=\"522\" data-end=\"547\">steals per 36 minutes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"550\" data-end=\"647\">Okogie brings energy and perimeter defense to a young Rockets team aiming to compete in the West.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rockets officials and agent Calvin Andrews of Klutch Sports negotiated the new deal for Okogie, who averaged a career high 1.2 steals and ranked fourth in steals per 36 minutes among players to appear in 40 games or more last season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xsy87967Su\">https:\/\/t.co\/xsy87967Su<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1947711642713608499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The veteran wing adds defensive depth to Houston. He ranked 4th in steals per 36 minutes last season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":377622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-452593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/Houston-Rockets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452593"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=452593"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=452593"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=452593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}